Re: Suggestion to change the behavior of M-r

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/8/14 Juri Linkov <address@hidden>:
>>>> I'm guessing that no one is interested after all, but for convenience
>>>> I tried compiling a couple of patches for this change: one which adds
>>>> this functionality to lisp/window.el (and also binds it to M-r) and
>>>> one which updates etc/NEWS if it needs to be documented there.
>>>
>>> I think M-r is a bad key for window-related functionality.  It is
>>> usually associated with search.  For example, we have a plan to use M-r
>>> in comint mode to start Isearch (see bug#3746).
>>
>> M-r is already bound to move-to-window-line by default, my patch
>> merely overrides it with a binding to move-to-window-line-top-bottom.
>
> Yes, this is a separate question.  As for move-to-window-line-top-bottom,
> I agree it should follow recenter-top-bottom.
>
> --
> Juri Linkov
> http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
>

Can we conclude that this change is a reasonable one which should be
put into Emacs? The original message was posted about half a year ago
and since then no one has objected to this change.

-- 
Deniz Dogan